Another nod to Burroughs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M43w...DuranDuranVEVO
A girl once tried to sell me on Steely Dan cause she knew I was a big WSB fan and I was like "these are some of the least Burroughsian sounds I've ever heard in my life"
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Originally Posted by elphenor
the most difficult part is the old school junkie slang, otherwise it's a pretty fun read so far
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Some of the junky slang in Naked Lunch gets explained in Junky, his first and most autobiographical book. But it's a bummer how few editions get published these days in English with proper scholarly annotations, which is imo the true purpose of literary criticism. Of 20th century classics it's Ulysses, Lolita, maybe a couple of others and that's it. One of the great things about the USSR was how much effort they put into annotating books (not that those puritan communist idiots would ever publish any Burroughs or Ulysses or Lolita in a million years).